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Constrained School Choice in Egypt
Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa; Sieverding, Maia - 2017
This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed … private schools at the pre-university level, we find that attendance of private higher education institutions has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738759
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The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education: A regression discontinuity analysis
Dayioglu, Meltem; Kucukbayrak, Muserref; Tumen, Semih - 2021
on youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658979
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Minimum Wages for Domestic Workers: Impact Evaluation of the Indian Experience
Gudibande, Rohan Ravindra; Jacob, Arun - 2018
the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950274
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Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444649
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The Arab Spring and the Employability of Youth: Early evidence from Egypt
Selwaness, Irene; Roushdy, Rania - 2017
(SYPE), we estimate the probability of transition to any first job within 18-month of finishing education and that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617727
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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642567
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Arrival of Young Talents: The Send-down Movement and Rural Education in China
Chen, Yi; Fan, Ziying; Gu, Xiaomin; Zhou, Li-An - 2018
This paper studies human-capital spillovers and its persistence by exploiting a unique event in modern China
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920162
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality
Hlasny, Vladimir; Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2020
Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 harmonized surveys covering 12 countries over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201815
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Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality and Child Mortality in India
Basu, Arnab K.; Byambasuren, Tsenguunjav; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
Indoor air pollution (IAP)–predominantly from the use of solid fuel for cooking– is a global health threat, particularly for women and young children, and one of the leading causes of infant deaths worldwide in developing countries. We estimate the causal effect of cooking fuel choice on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219742
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China’s Economic Demography Transition Strategy: A Population Weighted Approach to the Economy and Policy
Johnston, Lauren A. - 2020
economic and demographic change – an economic demography transition approach - has never been more pressing. Thanks partly to …’s consequential and ongoing economic demography transition strategy within the economic and development policy discourse. Amid epochal … demographic, public health, and geo-economic change, this economic demography perspective is timely, unique and useful in …
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